Pauline Tabor, Bowling Green's Madam, Remembered

Mary Lucas speaks Tuesday about notorious Bowling Green madam Pauline at the Bob Kirby branch of the Warren County Public Library.

Miranda Pederson
/ Bowling Green Daily News

A crowd gathered Tuesday night at a Warren County Public Library branch to hear historian Mary Lucas talk about her research on Pauline Tabor, who ran a well-known prostitution house in Bowling Green from the 1930s to the 1960s. Lucas was a history professor at Western Kentucky University for 19 years and became interested in Tabor after meeting her once and seeing the role she played in town. She visited Tabor on her farm, which increased her fascination. “This woman looked like a grandma, not like a notorious madam,” Lucas said. It was only through talking to Tabor that her feisty personality showed, she said.